[LargeFormat] Jobo 3000 Series Expert Drums

[Tim Atherton]

I just got a 3005 tank off ebay to use for 8x10 - what are the actual
physical dimensions of the tank anyone?

thanks

tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net]On
> Behalf Of Jim Brick
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:03 AM
> To: largeformat@f32.net; largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Jobo 3000 Series Expert Drums
>
>
> At 02:26 PM 12/2/2002 +0000, Clive Warren wrote:
>
> >Some people have commented before about difficulty in removing the lids
> >post processing - am hoping that the foot pump is not really necessary.
> >There is a little compressor sitting in the garage if it really is that
> >difficult to remove the lids. Wasn't it Verna who said that she used her
> >fingers under the lid to open the tanks without too much trouble?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >            Clive
>
>
> The foot pump is not necessary. Put a v-e-r-y thin coat of
> Vaseline around
> the inner edge of the lid.   V-E-R-Y thin.  Then when ready to remove the
> lid, put a towel (dish, washing up, hand, whatever) over the lid - to
> protect your finger nails. Put the drum on the floor. Put the
> edge of your
> shoes on the bottom edge (lip) of the drum. Put the end of your fingers
> (finger nails -through the towel) under the edge of the lid and
> gently work
> it one side then the other until it comes off.
>
> Originally I used the pump. When the lid is tight (always,) the lid blows
> off with explosive force. I actually built a box for my 3063 and
> 3010 drums
> that contained the explosion. My 3063 has blown so hard that the lid put
> dents in my darkroom ceiling. You are supposed to hold it on with your
> hands (as the instructions say, don't put your body over it) but it comes
> off with such force that it blows right through your hands.
>
> A colleague of mine (a girl) was using my darkroom and could not
> deal with
> the foot pump explosions. So she figured out how to remove the lids by
> hand. The above method, and I've never used the pump since.
>
> Jim
>
>
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